Page Links To

The Page Links To plugin allows WordPress Pages to link to any page you would like. I recently used it on a site where the top nav bar is comprised of pages, but two of the pages – the news and resources pages – needed to have dynamic content that was pulled from posts so that the items on those pages would be easily manageable and organized (i.e. by date, author, tags, etc.).

I created two categories on the blog: News and Resources. I created two Pages: News and Resources. I then followed the directions of the plugin and did the following:

Scroll down to the Custom Fields.

Enter links_to as a key.

For the value, I entered the URI of the category that I wanted to link this page to as the value of the key. So for News, I clicked on the News category on the blog page to get the URI, and copied and pasted that URI into the value field.

Now, when users click on News on the nav bar, it displays the news page as it would appear in the blog. I think that this plugin is another example of how WordPress can be used as a CMS. Excellent!

Miriam is the friendly CEO of illuminea, a WordPress design and development agency, and Strattic, a static publishing platform for Open Source CMSs. Miriam is a huge fan of WordPress and has been using it for over ten years. In addition, Miriam has organized the past five local Israeli WordCamp conferences.

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This is where Rebecca and Miriam from illuminea (and sometimes others) document things they've learned about WordPress. Even after nine years in the field, we're always learning new things about WordPress. Hope this helps you too.